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Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Panos Cosmatos’s dark cosmos, Sony’s $26 bn, Leonardo Da Vinci biopic, composer biopics galore, and a chess match.
Let’s go!
PANOS COSMATOS' DARK COSMOS
Panos Cosmatos's (dir: Mandy) blood-saturated imagery births new dimensions in cinema.
His debut, Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), locates us squarely into a futuristic commune doubling as an asylum. The watching experience makes one feel like they’re a patient under heavy hallucinogens.
His sophomore cinematic psychosphere, Mandy (2018), is best epitomized by a scene of Nicolas Cage forging a medieval battle axe and then doing a massive bump of cocaine.
Cosmatos will now direct Flesh of the Gods, an ‘80s LA vampire rave drama.
The attachments are insane:
Flesh of the Gods
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Kristen Stewart
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en, The Killer)
Producer: Adam McKay (Don't Look Up)
Sales Rep: CAA, WME, XYZ Films
Here is the official synopsis: